The Dodgers are on the verge of sweeping the Brewers after beating Milwaukee in Game 3 of the NLCS with a 3-1 win on Thursday at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers have now taken a commanding 3-0 lead in the National League Championship Series; with the win, Los Angeles is now just one game away from becoming the first defending World Series champion to make a return trip to the Fall Classic since the 2009 Philadelphia Phillies.

The Dodgers struck early with Shohei Ohtani leading off the bottom of the first with a triple off Andy Ashby, later coming home on Mookie Betts’ RBI double. Milwaukee answered in the second inning when Jake Bauers evened the score with an RBI single, but that was the last time the Brewers would cross the plate. The Dodgers’ Tommy Edman delivered a go-ahead single off Milwaukee rookie fireballer Jacob Misiorowski during a two-run sixth inning, on the way to victory.

Game 4 is scheduled for Friday at Dodger Stadium, with the Brewers facing elimination. The only team in MLB history that has ever rallied from a 3-0 deficit in the postseason was the 2004 Boston Red Sox, who famously stunned the Yankees in the ALCS that year.

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The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Seattle Mariners with a score a 8-2 in Game 4 of the ALCS on Thursday night at T-Mobile Park, to even their series 2-2.

Powered by an impressive outing from Max Scherzer and timely hits from Andrés Giménezm, the victory saw Scherzer turn in his strongest performance since mid-August, pitching 5.2 innings while allowing just two runs and striking out five. On offense, Giménez had hit a two-run home run, jump-starting Toronto’s scoring surge. The Blue Jays went on to score in four separate innings, putting the pressure on Seattle’s pitching staff: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. launched his fifth home run of the postseason in the seventh inning, marking a new franchise record – while Giménez went on to add two more RBIs, with a single in the eighth inning.

Game 5 will take place on Friday at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park at 6:08 p.m. ET.

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